This president rejects our values on all fronts
Little Egg Harbor, N.J.: As I read the story in the Daily News regarding the cancellation of SNAP benefits for our people who can’t afford food in a country that has never been known for people starving, I ask myself why this is happening.
While our so-called president has found money to bomb boats out of the water, have our Navy become pirates, and to try to get Ukraine to give a nuclear plant to our sworn enemy, I’m astounded at the cruelty toward our helpless citizens.
How much more can we stand while watching him trash “the people’s house,” spending our tax dollars on planes and gangs of bullies who drag innocent people from the places where they are trying to earn a living, not to become chattels of the state? Now he is attacking Venezuela. By starting a war with a smaller country, it seems as if he has taken lessons from his bosom buddy Vladimir Putin as he stabs Ukraine in the back at the same time. His relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allows the latter to continue killing women and children while President Trump tells the world he has solved that problem.
Now, will somebody tell him that a memorial is dedicated to honor a dead person? To put your name on a memorial like the Kennedy Center is to either declare that you are dead or to spit on the person whose honor you are stealing. Wake up, Congress. Impeach this uneducated traitor to our values! Rose S. Wilson
Exercise in futility
Los Angeles: With much amusement, I read letters in Voice of the People from pro-Trump MAGA Voicers John Hodio and Dom Mastropolo. My inclination is to always respond to the MAGA Voicers with facts that disprove their usual propaganda. Sadly, I have arrived at the conclusion of the utter futility of presenting MAGAs with facts in the hope that they will accept factual information and present intelligent opinions based on those facts. I realize now, after several years of dealing with the MAGA folks, that educating them is comparable to trying to teach second-grade elementary school students integral calculus. Harold Bissonette
Sick of him
White Plains, N.Y.: To Voicer Katherine Raymond: From your mouth to God’s ears. Elon Musk can’t go away soon enough! Eleanor Salerno
Party disfavors
Jackson Heights: Mayor Mamdani’s “Inauguration for a New Era Block Party” evidently didn’t provide his disappointed supporters with either food or toilet facilities. He promised to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” The mayor should have started by collecting some warm Porta Potties and food trucks for the frigid guests. Glenn B. Jacobi
Recent residents
Jamaica: Seventy-five percent of Mamdani voters have lived in NYC for fewer than 10 years; 65% of them for fewer than five years. Watching the interviews at his inauguration, same thing. It just goes to prove that New Yawka’s did not vote for him, and he himself will never be a New Yawka. It explains a lot — people not from here or living here for many, many years have no clue how the city functions or know the complexity of our city. Look around, very sad. Yvonne Scibelli
Solid support
Bronx: Mamdani’s victory is a mandate for his leftist affordability agenda, especially since he got a majority of the votes cast. W. Twirley
Not gonna work
Brooklyn: I hope Mamdani learned the #1 rule of economics at Bowdoin College: If you rob Peter enough times to pay for Paul, Peter just leaves! May Mamdani fail soon and fail often. May he take Gov. Hochul with him! David DiBello
Rude revelry
Ormond Beach, Fla.: We decided to stay home after many years of going to our country club to celebrate the New Year. CNN was the only station with coverage at Times Square, and we were shocked at how disgusting, partisan and inappropriate the two gentlemen hosting were. There were sexually inappropriate comments, very political anti-Eric Adams comments, and the hosts were clearly high and not in control of themselves or each other. Most of what they said and did had nothing to do with the event they were covering. I knew CNN was having problems but I had no idea it had sunk this low. This kind of depravity, licentiousness and polemical theatrics has no place on such a traditional and once-wholesome presentation of the coming of a new year, especially on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the greatest experiment in democracy and freedom in history. Charles Michael Sitero
Bad for kids
Brooklyn: The recent decision of the governor to sign the bill that bans anonymous child welfare complaints is a huge mistake. The number of complaints will probably drop by more than half as people will be afraid to give their names and addresses because of possible retaliation. I have had some experience dealing with homeless families in shelters, and I can tell you that there are many cases of abuse that their neighbors within the shelter report anonymously, but will not report if they have to give their name because of retaliation. When you combine this terrible change of procedure with the recent policies that encourage child welfare workers to leave abused children with their natural parents instead of taking them out, it equals a possible disaster for children. I believe we should be protecting children, not looking to curry favor with the advocates. Robert Mascali
Look elsewhere
Glendale: Adrienne Adams and Jennifer Jones Austin (“Racial justice and NYC’s affordability crisis,” op-ed, Dec. 30) believe the decline of NYC’s Black population by 200,000 over two decades is due to the rising wealth gap and other so-called racial injustice factors. I can cite one obvious factor that abortion advocates such as Adams refuse to acknowledge (I don’t know Austin’s politics, but I assume they’re similar). When nearly half of Black pregnancies in NYC are terminated, the 200,000 number is easily explained. In fact, with an estimated 10-15,000 abortions per year, if you ended abortion in the Black community, the population would’ve probably increased! As you advocate to carry on the work of a racist like Margaret Sanger, who helped form the largest abortion provider in the country, Planned Parenthood, and who believed that Blacks shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce, it’s no wonder you’ll never solve problems you don’t see. Thomas Murawski
Meant to deter
Fresh Meadows: I wish to respond to the well-written letter by Voicer Victor Malyar. Sadly, the reason bus shelters are disappearing is that the city does not wish to provide seating for homeless people or other kinds of vagrants who may congregate there. Six months ago, a friend and I observed a young man with a backpack sitting in one and proceeding to shoot drugs into his arm. The wave of the future are the leaning benches, and I agree that they are not comfortable or at all friendly for seniors. I am one myself. Lesley Lewis Paulos
No resolve
College Station, Texas: Every New Year, we perform the same small ritual of self-deception. We announce resolutions not because we believe in them, but because we already know they will fail. This failure isn’t accidental, it’s the point. The resolution allows us to enjoy the fantasy of changing without enduring the discomfort of doing so. We tell ourselves we’ll finally become disciplined, healthy and focused while quietly relying on the same habits to return and confirm who we “really are.” The resolution doesn’t oppose our old life. It secretly protects it. Perhaps the real break would be to stop promising improvement altogether. Not to aim lower, but to aim differently. Instead of imagining a purified future self, we might confront why we need this annual performance of renewal. The new year doesn’t demand a better version of us. It asks whether we’re brave enough to abandon the fantasy that such a version already exists. Charles Lincoln
Couldn’t catch it
Bronx: Why are the networks not showing “A Charlie Brown Christmas”? Mary Caggiano
